The Treaty of Fredrikshamn Nikolai Rumyantsev as well as David Alopaeus Russian ambassador to Stockholm, while Sweden by Infantry General Kurt von Stedingk former Swedish ambassador to Petersburg and Colonel Anders Fredrik Skjöldebrand.
In the treaty, Sweden ceded Finnish territories to Russia.
According to a treaty Sweden ceded parts of the provinces independence.
A quotation to Emperor Alexander's promise to retain old laws and privileges in Finland was included, but the treaty overstepped any formal guarantees of the legal position of Finland's inhabitants. The Russians refused, and the Swedes were not in a position to insist. Similar clauses had been common in peace treaties, but they were also regularly circumvented. At the period of Russification of Finland, 90 years later, the Russian government argued that the treaty was non violated and hence no outside party had any modification to intervene, the impeach being solely a matter of the Emperor who had granted the original promise.
During the negotiations, Swedish representatives had namely endeavoured to escape the damage of the Åland islands, "the fore-posts of Stockholm," as Napoleon's invasion of Russia.